How to import MXF video into Adobe Premiere? I want to edit MXF video in Adobe Premiere, but Premiere can’t read MXF files, why?
What’s the MXF?
Material eXchange Format (MXF ) is a container format for professional digital video and audio media defined by a set of SMPTE standards. MXF bundles together video, audio, and program data, such as text – together termed essence – along with metadata and places them into a wrapper. It’s body is stream based and carries the essence and some of the metadata. It holds a sequence of video frames, each complete with associated audio, and data essence, plus frame-based metadata. The latter typically comprises timecode and file format information for each of the video frames. This arrangement is also known as an interleaved media file.
Why need to convert MXF before editing in Adobe Premiere?
Currently, this format can’t be supported well by Adobe Premiere, when you import MXF files into Premiere, you will get an error message. So as to edit MXF files in Adobe Premiere. We have to transcode them into a format that Adobe Premiere liked.
Many users want to convert MXF to MPEG 2 so as to do the editing with perfect video quality. MXF to Premiere converter could help us doing the conversion easily with the optimized Adobe Premiere presets. Below is a detailed guide.
Step 1. Install the MXF to Adobe Premiere converter on your PC.
Step 2. Run it and add your MXF video files into this program.
Step 3. Select Adobe Premiere/Sony Vegas MPEG-2 as output.
Step 4. Click “Convert” button to start the conversion.
Once the conversion is done, you can edit MXF files in Adobe Premiere as you want. In addition, MXF Converter comes with optimized format presets for the most popular multimedia devices, such as iPad, iPad 3, Apple TV, ATV 3, Kindle Fire HD, Surface, Transformer Pad Infinity, Motorola Xoom, HP Touchpad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, BlackBerry PlayBook, Nook HD and so on. This MXF converter program helps you freely convert MXF recordings shot by a Panasonic P2 camcorder or a Canon XF camcorder for viewing on your different devices.
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Source:
http://www.aovsoft.com/guide/how-to-import-mxf-video-into-adobe-premiere/